Learning Object

Mestrado em Pedagogia do Elearning – 4.ª Edição – PPEL

Introduction

The task 2 of unit 1 Course “Processos Pedagógicos em Elearning” aims to

create a learning object (LO) on the Cooperative Freedom Theory

Lisbon, March 24, 2010

Nuno Miguel Oliveira

What is a learning object?
 A learning object is a resource, usually digital and web-based, that can be
used and re-used to support learning;

 Learning objects offer a new conceptualization of the learning process:

rather than the traditional "several hour chunk", they provide smaller, self-
contained, re-usable units of learning;

 They will typically have a number of different components, which range

from descriptive data to information about rights and educational level. At
their core, however, will be instructional content, practice, and assessment.
A key issue is the use of metadata;

 Learning object design raises issues of portability, and of the object's

relation to a broader learning management system;
Theories on the Distance Education

 Theories of Autonomy and Independence;

 Theories of Industrialization;

 Theories of Interaction and Communication.

Comparison of individual learning,
collaborative and cooperative

 Individual learning promotes a greater individual flexibility, which rules out

participation but virtual learning communities;

 Colaborative learning requires a participation in a learning communities

and limit a individual flexibility;

 Cooperative learning requires participation in virtual learning communities,

combining this intervention with the flexibility of students;
Comparison individual learning,
cooperative and collaborative
Theory of Cooperative Freedom
Theory of Cooperative Freedom

 The Theory of Cooperative Freedom is based based on three pillars:

 Promoting individual flexibility;

 Promoting affinity with the learning community;

 Voluntary participation but attractive.

Theory of Cooperative Freedom
 The Theory of Cooperative Freedom was developed by Morten Flate
Paulsen;

 It is influenced by Knowles´s theory of andragogy;

 Theory used by NKI Distance Education;

 It is based on the Theory of Autonomy and Independence;

 Focuses on the tension in distance education between individual

independence and collective cooperation;
Theory of Cooperative Freedom

 The challenge Theory of Cooperative Freedom is the availability of online

education that combines individual flexibility with the cooperation and
social unity;

 Development of virtual learning communities that allow cumulative

participation in virtual communities of learning and individual autonomy of
and flexibility;

 The Theory of Cooperative Freedom is developed based on the six axes are
given in the following hexagram.
Theory of Cooperative Freedom
Transparency Supports Cooperation

 Transparency is very important for promotion cooperative on-line

education;

 Transparency should never put in question the issues of individual privacy;

 The students determine the level of personal information you transmit to

teachers, class and other students;

 The cooperation should be fully transparent to students, teachers and

schools.
Transparency Supports Cooperation
Conclusion

In the future the adult learners will increasingly seek the flexibility and
individual freedom.

At the same time many of them prefer to group collaboration and social unity.

On the online instruction is very difficult to combine these characteristics but

is possible to join individual freedom and collective unity.

For this it is essential to develop education plans and / or training at a

distance where there is cooperation between the group members.
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This work was basead on the following bibliografy:

Paulsen, Morten Flate, “Cooperative Online Education”

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Paulsen, Morten Flate, “The Hexagon Of Cooperative Freedom: A Distance Education

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